All Aboard The Transgender Death Cult Tugboat, Destination Unknown
The disastrous voyage and the sinister aftermath
Jack Amadeus ‘Ziz’ LaSota wanted to save the world, and he also hated paying rent, so he hatched a perfect plan. In 2017, he convinced some friends to help him buy the Caleb, a 94-foot tugboat, and sail her to the San Francisco Bay area. His plan was to live ‘anchor-out,’ away from shore, rent-free, “escaping the burdens of society” while they pondered the saving of the planet, according to the Chronicle.
LaSota was not an experienced mariner. He had lived on small sailboats, including one he shared with Gwen Danielson, an investor in the Caleb. But LaSota had his genius, and believed his genius was a product of his transgenderism. Being transgender was enough to turn a profit on owning a tugboat. People would pay to live on it with him, and his genius, and help him save the world.
It all went as well as one might expect. Boats are ‘female’ in language because …
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